Thank you for posting this for others to find. My mother and I have been trying to find this radio play again for years, she always tried to get me into them when I was a kid (she listened to an online radio station that played radio plays endlessly) and this one was my favorite. I’m so happy to be able to hear it again after so long, and finally know it’s name.
Unfortunately, it makes a substantial change to the ending. Throughout the story the author slowly builds up the idea that humanity is exceptional: for example, the Galactics only visit planets with life rarely because it takes a long time for intelligence to appear. That is why they are so surprised that and intelligent specie shas appeared on Earth and are even more surprised that it has mastered radio. When the landing party explore the abandoned city they regard the machines there are primitve - but of superlative workmanship and beautiful design. They are astonished to discover the humanity had already achieved space travel in less than two hundred years - an achievement that took the other races thousands of years or more: one of the members boasts that his race accomplished it in just three thousand years, widely regarded as something of a record. At the end of the story the Galactics disover that humanity - the youngest race in the Galaxy - has not crept into the heart of thei rplanet to die, but instead has built a fleet of ships, each of which is bigger than the Galactic's own, and thousands of them. Enough to evacuate the entire planet. Humanity has not only achieved unheard of rates of progress in technology, but exhibited unparalleled determination and daring to actually use rockets to cross interstellar space. The Galactic races never even considered doing so, and took thousands of years to move from radio to space travel, ad them many thousands more before even trying to reach the stars. Humanity has achieved something that none of them even dared to consider and in an astonishingly short time. It's unlikely that any other race could have done it, or would even have tried, even with the threat of total destruction. The book ending is as follows:: "I think they will be very determined people. We'd better be polite to them. I hope they like us. After all, we only outnumber them a thousand million to one" It is clearly intended to be a joke, but the final line is: *Twenty years later it didn't seem funny* The implication is that humanity in a mere twenty years is already challenging the Federation itself, with thousands of much older races, for supremacy.
Yes, there is another audio version on YT with the original ending, implying that humans had altered the billion-to-one odds significantly in their favor over twenty years. To me, it is an ominous foreshadowing, similar to the ending of several stories about AI, such as The Forbin Project and Ex Machina. In this case though, Pandora’s Box is full of humans. This is clearly more radio play than audiobook, so I expect some liberties will be taken in the script. But to radically alter the conclusion, as vague as it is, seems a bit over the line. I wonder if the scriptwriter intentionally changed the ending or if they skimmed the book and missed the significance of the last sentence.
@@dmrr7739 It's a really nice story that upends the convention that the dumb and backward humans need the advanced and enlightened aliens to save them. It actually turns out that the humans might be the new kids on the block, but they are also by far the smartest and most determined, and are progressing at astonishing speed, and even though they are still "primitive" their achievements have already exceeded the aliens and they didn;t need help at all.
@@richardgregory3684 Must be sad to realize that a mere 10 months later, your comment seem silly, considering that humanity is destroying living conditions on earth at such a fast rate that interstellar travel will never become a reality. Only a drone will roam the galaxy looking for a planet with *real* intelligent life.
@@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11 Actually it was a good comment. Still is. Maybe when the rockets had thrust towards the stars, the misanthropists had been left behind. The destruction of living conditions could be the impetus for such a journey, and perhaps those human-hating people were not issued tickets for the concern that they would jeopardize the success and poison the culture with self-hate that they feel belongs on the shoulders of others.
Loved this since it first came out ! The tapes rock because its filled with subliminal messages ! Both sides . I actually had to buy a cassette player just to listen to these again .
Nah. Only this. Tried searching for Dreamscape (the only other one I remember) but I only found audiobooks, the story being read, not the original Omni Audio Experience with sound effects...
It's meant to be listened to with headphones. A lot of those old audio programs were, especially ones that use binaural sound recording like kuntzkopf where the microphones are placed inside the ears of a dummy head, and the voice actors literally play out the scene around the head, walking around, occasionally using props, etc. and if you're wearing headphones, you can close your eyes and it sounds like you're right in the middle of it. The dummy head shapes the sounds in ways that your brain perceives as natural, so you can hear things "behind" you, or "above" you even though you're only wearing left/right ear headphones.
A credible attempt to dramatise “Rescue Party” I love the narration, but the story has been altered in detail that changes the weight of the work. This story captured my imagination when I first read it as a teen. I still re=read it occasionally like an old friend. I’ll stick with the written version.
Thank you for posting this for others to find. My mother and I have been trying to find this radio play again for years, she always tried to get me into them when I was a kid (she listened to an online radio station that played radio plays endlessly) and this one was my favorite. I’m so happy to be able to hear it again after so long, and finally know it’s name.
Excellent narrators. Another wonderful Arthur C. Clarke story. Thank you.
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Beautiful story about the determination of the human race to survive and the compassionate concern of an older and higher civilization.
Arthur C. was a much respected sci-fi writer that I read as a boy 60 years ago! He is much missed.
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Not so easy to have such an incredibly optimistic look about human beings currently... The ending was beautiful
Not so easy, indeed. Very good story
Great story,I would expect no less from Arthur C Clarke..
Unfortunately, it makes a substantial change to the ending. Throughout the story the author slowly builds up the idea that humanity is exceptional: for example, the Galactics only visit planets with life rarely because it takes a long time for intelligence to appear. That is why they are so surprised that and intelligent specie shas appeared on Earth and are even more surprised that it has mastered radio. When the landing party explore the abandoned city they regard the machines there are primitve - but of superlative workmanship and beautiful design. They are astonished to discover the humanity had already achieved space travel in less than two hundred years - an achievement that took the other races thousands of years or more: one of the members boasts that his race accomplished it in just three thousand years, widely regarded as something of a record.
At the end of the story the Galactics disover that humanity - the youngest race in the Galaxy - has not crept into the heart of thei rplanet to die, but instead has built a fleet of ships, each of which is bigger than the Galactic's own, and thousands of them. Enough to evacuate the entire planet. Humanity has not only achieved unheard of rates of progress in technology, but exhibited unparalleled determination and daring to actually use rockets to cross interstellar space. The Galactic races never even considered doing so, and took thousands of years to move from radio to space travel, ad them many thousands more before even trying to reach the stars. Humanity has achieved something that none of them even dared to consider and in an astonishingly short time. It's unlikely that any other race could have done it, or would even have tried, even with the threat of total destruction.
The book ending is as follows::
"I think they will be very determined people. We'd better be polite to them. I hope they like us. After all, we only outnumber them a thousand million to one"
It is clearly intended to be a joke, but the final line is: *Twenty years later it didn't seem funny*
The implication is that humanity in a mere twenty years is already challenging the Federation itself, with thousands of much older races, for supremacy.
Yes, there is another audio version on YT with the original ending, implying that humans had altered the billion-to-one odds significantly in their favor over twenty years. To me, it is an ominous foreshadowing, similar to the ending of several stories about AI, such as The Forbin Project and Ex Machina. In this case though, Pandora’s Box is full of humans.
This is clearly more radio play than audiobook, so I expect some liberties will be taken in the script. But to radically alter the conclusion, as vague as it is, seems a bit over the line. I wonder if the scriptwriter intentionally changed the ending or if they skimmed the book and missed the significance of the last sentence.
@@dmrr7739 It's a really nice story that upends the convention that the dumb and backward humans need the advanced and enlightened aliens to save them. It actually turns out that the humans might be the new kids on the block, but they are also by far the smartest and most determined, and are progressing at astonishing speed, and even though they are still "primitive" their achievements have already exceeded the aliens and they didn;t need help at all.
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Must be sad to realize that a mere 10 months later, your comment seem silly, considering that humanity is destroying living conditions on earth at such a fast rate that interstellar travel will never become a reality. Only a drone will roam the galaxy looking for a planet with *real* intelligent life.
@@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11 Actually it was a good comment. Still is.
Maybe when the rockets had thrust towards the stars, the misanthropists had been left behind. The destruction of living conditions could be the impetus for such a journey, and perhaps those human-hating people were not issued tickets for the concern that they would jeopardize the success and poison the culture with self-hate that they feel belongs on the shoulders of others.
Funny the algorithm suggested this to me. I still have this tape!
Good story. The ending was not what I expected. Good on 'em.
This was great.. Thank you so much for posting it.. Classic Scfi !!!!
This was something I had when I was a kid. So I want to share it and remember it.
Thank you- fantastic sounds effects and story 😀
Thanks for posting this. I listened to this when I was a kid. I found a bunch of audio tapes and posted them years ago.
Thank you again.
No problem. I just loved this when I was a kid and I still love it now.
i had this on cassette when I was in high school. must have listened to it a thousand times.
Love this story
Another one of the best a true science fiction writer.
That was really quite fantastic. Thank you very much :)
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Thank you for posting this. Have you found the other side of the tape? introduction -- The mists -- Sleepscape -- Think-a-thought.
Dreamscape. I've posted it here in my channel...
Loved this since it first came out ! The tapes rock because its filled with subliminal messages ! Both sides . I actually had to buy a cassette player just to listen to these again .
The very last part of the story is missing where it says "20 years later no one was laughing at the joke."
That was good hi from newzealand
this was pretty good
Great stuff thanks
Loved it!!
Cool - thank you!
do you have any of the other stories ready to upload? what are those stories names and who wrote them? thanks. I've been looking for this since '88
Nah. Only this. Tried searching for Dreamscape (the only other one I remember) but I only found audiobooks, the story being read, not the original Omni Audio Experience with sound effects...
Finally found Dreamscape. Already uploaded in this channel.
Brill! Thanxx
You’ve never worked with a Paladorian before have you?
a good story I read a long time ago - but I didn't enjoy the production. There was too much bass to make it easy to listen to.
It's meant to be listened to with headphones. A lot of those old audio programs were, especially ones that use binaural sound recording like kuntzkopf where the microphones are placed inside the ears of a dummy head, and the voice actors literally play out the scene around the head, walking around, occasionally using props, etc. and if you're wearing headphones, you can close your eyes and it sounds like you're right in the middle of it. The dummy head shapes the sounds in ways that your brain perceives as natural, so you can hear things "behind" you, or "above" you even though you're only wearing left/right ear headphones.
A credible attempt to dramatise “Rescue Party” I love the narration, but the story has been altered in detail that changes the weight of the work. This story captured my imagination when I first read it as a teen. I still re=read it occasionally like an old friend. I’ll stick with the written version.
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That was stupid.
I find the music and fx a little too exciting please
It's on the original, so unless he spends ages removing it, it's got to stay, please
@@WhiteUnicorn82 please and thank you.